"When the assistant principal walked in, one of these students, a freshman girl classified with an emotional disturbance, began cursing. When the assistant principal ignored her, she started cursing at me. Then she began lobbing pencils across the room. Was this because I was a bad teacher? I don’t know.
I know that after she began throwing things, I sent her to the dean’s office. I know that a few days later, I received notice that my lesson had been rated unsatisfactory because, among other things, I had sent this student to the dean instead of following our school’s “guided discipline” procedure."
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People are going to click this posting because of the title “bad teacher”.
Unfortunately, they will disappointed with the details.
“Students with increasingly severe disabilities are being pushed into more mainstream classrooms like mine,”
Thank liberals for pushing for mainstreaming of special ed students.. .too include those with severe disabilities and behavior problems.
My wife is a Special Ed teacher--see what decent teachers in CA put up with...
There are lots of students for who the schools have just become child care centers for them.
We should not be spending public money trying to educate them.
the rating of special education teachers should be based on different criteria than regular classrooms.
The makeup of these classrooms ensures an unpredictable, chaotic atmosphere.
I guess they are calling a principal a dean now? Being sent to the principal’s office is unreasonable in the face of a physical barrage of school supplies? That student could have hurt other students not just the teacher.
It would be difficult to blame that teacher if s/he quit.
I call BS. The real problem is trying to teach all students starting with the lowest common denominator.
Mainstreaming, like all PC bullcarp, demands that those who can and want to learn are forced to share the class room with kids that can't or don't want to learn. So very little teaching or learning takes place.
Just changing the very stupid liberal idea that education is a right that must be provided to every student regardless would stop allowing the problem children to sabotage the classroom would cause almost instant improvement in educational outcomes for the majority.
While I feel bad or sad for the "special" kids, it does them nor our society any good to allow them to drag the entire nation down to their level of thought and behavior in the name of PC fairness.
This guy needs to document all the inconsistent guidance he’s being given from his superior (it sounds like he’s been doing that). Put it all into a “Pearl Harbor file” to be sprung open when enough evidence has been collected and the situation is becoming intolerable. There’s no sense in beating yourself up when your leader is the real problem.
I am a regular education teacher who’s had Spec. Ed. kids mainstreamed into his class for years. I’ll admit I don’t like mainstreaming, even though I’ve had some success with these kids. In my experience of those labeled as Spec Ed many, if not the majority, are mostly lazy malcontents who hide behind a label that essentially exempts them from meeting even the low standards that their presence makes necessary. I think IDEA is a huge problem also- many of my colleagues who work only with special ed kids have huge reams of useless documentation they have to deal with, none of which actually helps anyone learn anything. But the fact that I would think anything bad about the whole situation would make me a heartless bastard to object....